What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Jovan]

Trying to find that at my local library. No success. Maybe the mother can find it on NetFlix?

 

[deadpandiva]

I watched some of The Parent Trap. I adore Maureen O'Hara but grew tired of everyone else in the film so I didn't finish it. plause as a twin, I Found the whole plot ldicrous and cruel.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

The library where I work part-time has the Rated film, haven't seen it yet. It spends about 5 minutes on the shelf between borrowings.
Last night was movie night at a friend's house: The Devil Wears Prada. Hated it. I went home and started to watch Charlie Chan in Shanghai. Love it. (See Handsome Fellas thread.)

 

[sweetfrancaise]

I watched some of The Parent Trap. I adore Maureen O'Hara but grew tired of everyone else in the film so I didn't finish it. plause as a twin, I Found the whole plot ldicrous and cruel.

I love that movie--I can understand why you wouldn't, of course, but I watched it all the time when I was a kid. Haley Mills is adorable, and Brian Keith plays a good match for Maureen. Ridiculous plot, sure, but fun all the same.

Ooh, I watched The Five Pennies last night. Great film--always makes me cry!

 

[deadpandiva]

I love that movie--I can understand why you wouldn't, of course, but I watched it all the time when I was a kid. Haley Mills is adorable, and Brian Keith plays a good match for Maureen. Ridiculous plot, sure, but fun all the same.

Ooh, I watched The Five Pennies last night. Great film--always makes me cry!

I love. love, love The Five Pennies.

 

[lyburnum]

I watched 'Paris When It Sizzles' last night. Can't say I was too impressed [huh]

 

[Diamondback]

I thought the robots were better actors than the humans.

I dunno, the two Jons didn't do too bad... (Turturro was very convincing about portraying someone I'd have wanted to help into a "cliff-dive" off Hoover Dam... and Voight I thought was OK as the SecDef. No James Earl Jones as Admiral Greer or Fred Thompson as Admiral Painter, but...)

Other than that, if it's "meat vs. metal", I tend to side with "metal". IMO, Blackout (the chopper) was pretty cool, even if he was one of the bad-guys...

 

[SamMarlowPI]

Deer Hunter...wonderful as always...

 

[anabolina]

I saw Meet the Robinsons and I was a Male War Bride tonight and both were a lot of fun. I also watched that movie with Red Skelton on TCM tonight and yes, it was also amusing. I was surprised at how much I liked Meet the Robinsons, it was just a cute, sweet, feel good movie

 

[Lady Day]

Trying to find that at my local library. No success. Maybe the mother can find it on NetFlix?

Would the library carry an NC-17 film?

LD

 

[Jovan]

They do, yes. Just about anything is available apart from straight-up pornography or anything of that nature. I live in a university town, thus they try to get in anything documentary.

 

[Mr. Rover]

I just watched Marked Woman, starring Bette Davis and Bogey.

 

[Sefton]

The last film I finished watching (you parents of young children will understand..) was Vittorio DeSica's "Umberto D". Another wonderful Italian neo-realist from DeSica. Before that I watched the great Criterion Collection two disc set of DeSica's "The Bicycle Thieves". Both films have a nice selection of extra features. "The Bicycle Thieves" is one of the best films I've ever seen and now that I'm typing this I think I'll have to watch it again...

 

[SamMarlowPI]

Pitfall 1948 good ol' classic noir...

 

[hepkitten]

I just watched Marked Woman, starring Bette Davis and Bogey.

I LOVE Marked Woman! It's interesting to see Bogey play the earnest good guy. And Bette is top-notch as the jaded clip joint hostess trying to keep her naive younger sister out of the game. Apparently, when Bette's character's face is cut ("marked", a la the title), the director wanted to shoot the subsequent hospital scene w/ Bette all dolled up and a teeny band-aid on her cheek. Bette went out and got big bandages to tape up half her face and refused to shoot the scene until the director agreed to make it realistic. She won -- her character looks like absolute hell.

I just watched All This, and Heaven, Too. My first Charles Boyer film. A tad over the top melodramatic, but Bette is fantastic, as usual -- and it was fun seeing a teenaged June Lockhart.

 

[John in Covina]

On DVD the Duke "Big Jim McClain"

I was at Fry's a notorious Electronics dealer in the Southern California area and in their DVD section you can stumble across movies you would be hard pressed to find at your regular DVD venue.

I picked up the 1952 release of "Big Jim McClain" with John Wayne and James Arness as investigators for HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee. Fightin' Commies with Su-peenies (yes that is how John Wayne said it). ANyway a real flag waver with a tight focus on the whole "Red Scare" style of film. Some nifty suits, fedoras and cars plus with the local in Hawaii there is a great splash of Hawaiian shirts, Luaua's, lais, hula dancing and Hawaiian music. Oh, while there the Duke falls in love with the widow of a WWII Navy pilot early on. Some great mugs talking tough in a few scenes too.

In addidtion the dvd had a Daffy Duck cartoon with Daffy as a hardboiled PI and a comedy short about living happy. Not bad for $7.99!

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Get your free NC-17s right here!

Would the library carry an NC-17 film?

LD

My library (Winton Branch Library of the Rochester Public Library) has it and others.
I saw that Big Jim McClain recently and loved it!!

 

[Twitch]

Pursuit of Happiness via Netflix. Kind of a downer for a while but Will Smith did a great job with it.

 

[Quigley Brown]

I finally got to see The Departed on cable last night. I read afterwards that most of Nicholson's scenes were improvised.

 

[rotten03]

The Third Man. Oddly enough it was the first time I had seen it. Definitely a good movie.